Bowl attendance across the country was down in 2016 and the turnout for the TaxSlayer Bowl was no different. In fact, TaxSlayer attendance was at its lowest since 1958, and its two least-attended games since that one some six decades ago, last week and the one in 2000, both included Georgia Tech. (Do better, GT fans.)
To that, TaxSlayer Bowl president Rick Catlett said, “Thank God for Kentucky fans,” for doing their part in filling the seats and flooding the city of Jacksonville with tourism money.
From The Florida Times-Union:
Kentucky’s fan base, spurred by their first bowl trip in six years and first Florida bowl game in 18 years, sold out its allotment of 8,000 tickets in three days and were estimated to have purchased 12,000.